The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-12-01
THE RED FLAG
1t was Displayed at a Regular Red
Hot Anarchist Meeting
at New York.
Another Foreigner Makes Revolu-
tionary Threats Against
This Country.

NEw YoBR, November 29.-Cooper
union was filed to overdowing last night
With people who sympathized with the
Chicago anarchists who were hanged
The meeting was called by the Trades
federations aud in behalf of the widoys
and orphSrs of the anarchists recently
executed in Chicago. II was an anarchist
meeting through and through. There
were red rlhbOus and feathers on the
women and red neck-tiss aud hat hands
on the men, There was red and black
hag back of the stage, aud portraits Of
the hanged anarchists were draped in
biacs. The police were present in force,
but the meeting was not interrupted.
Mr., Sheyitch, who was the orator, said
in substance: "IG is 40 time to cheer. 1t
is no line TO weLp 10 is q time Go
think; time to get ready for action. 1t
ls memorial we are celebrating tonight,
not IN honor of those who DO not want
any ~ preston of feeling. Il is 20 the
people of the country. The Judicial mur-
der ia Chicago would have beon impossi
bic even in Russia. The men were not
hanged for crime. They were hanged
for'what they had thought, written ard
spoken, They did not hang Spies and
She other anarchists alone. They
hung free speech, free thought. II is
supposed the men were ctapks and fore
igners to whom little attention was paid
If they We're sJch, why was such an effort
put forth TO suppress them. IL is o mis-
take to suppose their ideps do not
amount to anything. quarter of a
century ago John Brown, native Ameri-
can, was lynched and four years later
half the nation WAS marching on with hi.
soul. Do you want to know
the names of the foreigners
in tAis countIyf They are Jay GouId,
the Vanderbjlts, the Russell SHges The
foreigners are not the anarchists The
element who have nothing in kind with
the people are the capitalists. They con
troll oar politics with their mO0ey, aud
have diegraoed our honor and liberty
Their cry of law and order is for their
own protection, for the protection Of
their stolen property, The execution il
Chicago will forever be handed down ae
tho worst crime in the history of this
people. Powderly and Henry George
have placed themselves in line
With the hangman. The object
Of the tragedy was to intimicate the ad
vance workers in tho labor movement.
There was other cause for the murder
You have heard it said that the anarchists
do not belong to this country. They do
not want to belong 80 this country. they
do not need TO come under it's flag. Taey
have a hlg of their own their red flag.
What S his fac for which more noble
hearts have dieo than any other? What
does this red flag mean? It means
she blood of humanity. 1t means to
put stop TO the shedding OF
blood. It means 10 put d stop to the con
dition Of those who work but cannot en-
Joy, aud those Who do not work but do
enjoy. There is blood on the flag, the
blood of thousands and millions slaugh
tered for that flag. Lt ia drenched in the
blood of the victims of the militia in Hi
nOis and other states. If that flag is dan
gerOus, gentlemen of the prose, that
danger has been created by the gentlemen
who employ your own bosses. The cry OF
bosses abOHt law and order is only the
dust that is thrown in the
eyes of the people know
Ii is the habit TO send spies TO take down
the words Of speakers on these occasions.
Let Us stand together Let us
be more Gery in our language
shan ever before. Let the bio d |
of the anarchists cry out through the
world, II is our flag. We will raise it.
We will carry it through your streets, The
time is not Jar distant when national
monsment viii be raised TO the men mur-
dered in Chicago"
Resolutions were passed in which those
present pledged themselves to support
the widows aud orphans Of the hanged
Chicago anarchists.